SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — When the search term “Yonsei” suddenly trended on the CU convenience store chain’s mobile app on March 18, it wasn’t customers looking for the dairy company’s milk. Instead, Doosan Bears baseball fans were hunting for a new cream-filled pastry collaboration between CU, Yonsei Dairy, and their beloved team. The [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Confectionery Co., a unit of South Korean conglomerate Lotte Group, announced on Wednesday that it will launch a subscription-based snack service dubbed “Monthly Snack,” the first of its kind in Korea. The new service is based on the concept of the subscription economy, which refers to a business [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The local fish cake industry has continued to grow as manufacturers of fish cakes, which used to be seen only as humble side dish ingredients, are changing consumer perceptions with high-end snacks. According to the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp., sales of fish cakes in South Korea have [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – What’s your favorite way to eat dried seaweed? If you are a Korean, you may want to have a bowl of rice with dried seaweed, roasted with sesame oil and fine salt, and kimchi. Dried seaweed pressed into a dark green sheet is called “kim,” a homonym for the [...]